Tennessee’s state medical examiner said Tuesday that investigators have been hesitant to conclude that Steve McNair’s girlfriend killed the NFL star and herself because she didn’t appear to have a motive, but that murder-suicide is the most likely scenario. An unlikely scenario is that a third party could have staged the scene. After the couple was discovered shot to death Saturday, police were quick to label McNair’s death a homicide.

He had been shot twice in the head and twice in the chest, while 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi was dead from a single gunshot to the head. Under her body was a gun she had purchased less than two days before the killings.

Investigators were waiting on ballistics tests on the weapon before issuing a ruling on Kazemi’s death, which medical examiner Bruce Levy said could come in the next few days. Kazemi’s gun purchase is a strong indication that she was responsible, he said.

Yahoo, NFL players settle: Yahoo Inc. and the NFL Players Association have reached a settlement over the use of players’ statistics, photos and other data in Yahoo’s popular online fantasy football game, but details were not released. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Yahoo sued the NFLPA last month in U.S. District Court in Minnesota, claiming Yahoo shouldn’t have to pay royalties to use the data because the information is already publicly available.

Yahoo dropped the lawsuit Monday, and a judge formally dismissed it without prejudice, which leaves open the possibility of bringing it up again.

Stallworth says he wasn’t drunk: Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte’ Stallworth told police he drank up to four shots of premium tequila while partying with friends at a Miami Beach club but did not feel drunk in the hours before he struck and killed a pedestrian with his car. In a recorded interview with police, Stallworth said he met fellow Browns receiver Braylon Edwards and others at a hotel sometime after 2 a.m. March 14.

When asked if he was intoxicated, Stallworth said: “No, sir.” Stallworth said he left the club sometime after 4 a.m., went to his Miami condominium for a nap and then decided to go out for breakfast in his 2005 Bentley.

“I seen him in the street, and I flashed my lights at him to let him at least know I was coming. I tried to swerve over as much as I could,” Stallworth said.

Later, his voice falling almost to a whisper, Stallworth said, “If he would have completely stopped and not kept going … don’t know why he kept going. … I should have just stayed home.”

Briefly: An appeals court has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of murdering the daughter of former NFL star Fred Biletnikoff.

New York Giants linebacker Michael Boley has been suspended by the NFL for the first game of the regular season for violating the league’s personal conduct policy.

Green Bay has signed guard/tackle T.J. Lang.

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